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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — An Alpha Natural Resources spokesman says the company plans to lay off 117 people when it shuts down a Kentucky coal mine in November. Spokesman Steve Hawkins tells the Lexington Herald-Leader (http://bit.ly/2c3rNQj ) that the company has issued a required 60-day layoff notice at the Process Energy Mine in Pike County, which is set to be ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana officials will keep studying the potential effects of a major coal mine near the Wyoming border, despite a bankruptcy filing by its sponsor Arch Coal and its suspension of the project that could produce 20 million tons of coal a year, a state official said Thursday. Regulators want to determine to what extent streambeds need ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A methane gas leak at a coal mine in Russia’s far north triggered three explosions that ignited fires and partially collapsed the mine, killing 36 people, officials said Sunday. The dead included five rescue workers and a mine worker who were killed early Sunday when the third explosion rocked the Severnaya mine in Vorkuta, a town north ...

As Consol Energy Inc. promised a week ago, the Cecil-based energy company posted a loss for the past quarter and outlined spending cuts for the next year-and-a-half to weather a stubbornly long period of depressed oil, gas, and coal prices. Consol reported a net loss of $603 million, or $2.64 per share, down from a loss of $25 million, or ...

CAMERON, W.Va. — State officials are investigating a coal mine accident in Marshall County that killed one worker and injured two others. In a statement to media outlets, Murray Energy identified the miner who was killed as John M. “Mike” Garloch of Neffs, Ohio. The company says Garloch was a management employee. The injured miners haven’t been identified. Murray Energy ...

OAKWOOD – The more than 1,500 people who live in Oakwood draw their water from the Salt Fork River. That’s why Bob Jennings, president of the village board in the small Vermilion County town, had a lot of questions when he learned that the proposed Bulldog coal mine would be discharging water from its surface operation into the watershed upriver ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The federal agency in charge of environmental protection at surface mines including Wyoming’s huge open-pit coal mines has agreed to work toward regulating the toxic chemicals that sometimes get ejected into the air during blasting. Occasionally not all explosive used in a mine blasting operation ignites. When that happens, a toxic, orange-colored cloud containing nitrogen oxide can ...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — From the road, it looks like any other waste water treatment plant tucked into a remote hillside in southeastern Butler County. But a closer look reveals it’s bringing in not sewage but bright-orange groundwater from an abandoned coal mine nearby. With fracking as an impetus, it could be the next step in solving one of the state’s ...

Forum News Service reported today that a permit for a coal mine in western North Dakota has been approved. The site will be called the Coyote Creek Mine and will be located 10 miles southwest of Beulah. Coyote Creek Mining Co. is a subsidiary of the North American Coal Corp. This will be the first new coal mine in the ...

May 20 (Reuters) – Eight suspects were arrested by a Turkish court late on Monday in the western town of Soma, on a provisional charge of “causing multiple deaths” in last week’s mine disaster, as the last of the 301 victims were buried. Ramazan Dogru, general manager of Soma Coal Mining Company, and Chief Executive Can Gurkan, the son of company owner ...

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